Trust in Government

Published: October 9, 2000

To the Editor:

An Oct. 5 letter posed a question -- ''are government bureaucrats more capable of running my life than I am?'' -- similar to what George W. Bush has asked in the debate and his stump speeches. To many of us, however, that is not the key question.

Voters should be asking themselves if an increasingly unregulated and oligopolistic market economy should continue to prevent many Americans from access to basic necessities, like affordable health care. I would also like to know why government is such an anathema to so many in a representative democracy.